This film brings a cross-generational sampling of Indigenous people, researchers, and politicians to reveal reasons for their disproportionately high incidences of health disparities and social issues.

[11] This collection of stories, names Historical Trauma as the unique and insidious part of the genetic code that resilient Native American populations are still finding ways to dodge.

People interviewed: Rick McArthur, AIM Legal Resources, Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Winona LaDuke, Program Director, Honor the Earth, Dr. Melissa Walls, research sociologist, UMD, Chy (Native Youth), Music by Tall Paul and Keith Secola First Contact This segment of the film introduces discusses first contact which is defined as Christopher Columbus’[16] and his crews domination over the Indigenous peoples of the new world.

[18][19] People interviewed: Vanessa Goodthunder, Director of Cansayapi Wakanyeza Owayawa Oti, Jesse Ventura, Governor, State of Minnesota, Clyde Belecourt, Dr. Melissa Walls, Richie Plass, Curator Bittersweet Winds, Tara Houska, tribal attorney, the National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, Dr. Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State, Rep. Keith Ellison, Rep. Betty McCollum Boarding School Era This segment of the film discusses the US and Canadian governments efforts to use ethnocide via religious boarding schools and residential schools in the United States to rid the North America Indigenous peoples of their own culture.

[20][21] People interviewed: Melvin Lee Houston, Mike Her Many Horses, Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Don Coyhis, President and Founder of White Bison, Linda Eagle Speaker, Elder In Residence, MIWRC, Joseph Marshall III, historian, writer, teacher, craftsman, administrator, actor, and public speaker Treaty Rights This segment follows a treaty right Leonard Thompson and his son Todd Thompson as they attempt to gather wild rice off-reservation without a permit and in violation of State law.

People interviewed: Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Leonard Thompson, Treaty Rights advocate Music By Dorene Day Waubanewquay Social Justice This segment of the film addresses the root causes of health inequities[24] and the relationship between law enforcement and Native Americans.